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[mokyn]

Writing parents becomes a lot more fun when you make them complete dorks. Still mature and able to be firm with their kid when it's called for (especially considering I give them a rather troubled teenage son who is desperate need of strictness in his life to help sort him out) but most of the time acting very easy-going and like life is just fantastic.

Writing authoritarian parents, though, is still tough as hell and they're also needed for a story to work.